About Me

There was an earlier day in my life when I had plenty of time and no money for my hobby, now I have money for my hobby and not so much time. I never stopped playing with toy soldiers "much to my mothers chagrin" exchanging the sandbox, green armymen and rocks for Donald Featherstone's book Wargames, AWI soldiers from the back of a comic book, dice and rulers. Those early games were great fun and very exciting. Eventually I graduated to more complicated systems, better miniatures, headaches, rule arguments and basically not a lot of fun. I thought about ditching the hobby altogether. I realized recently that I like a good game of toy soldiers. I like the look of toy soldiers and I like the way a simple game plays. I like the trusty d6.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

The first game

Here are photos of the first game using my Irregual Miniature 42mm Russo-Turkish War figures. We used Chris Peers "Ever Victorious Armies" with some modifications. My wife and a friend played the Turkish soldiers and his son and my daughters played the Russian contingent. This was a pre-game to test the rules for convention suitability, they work very well!